General Machinist

Education: Other trades certificate or diploma
- Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years
**Work setting**:

- General manufacturing
**Tasks**:

- Read and interpret engineering drawings, blueprints, charts and tables
- Repair machine tools and parts
- Set up and adjust production machineries/tools
- Fit and assemble components and machine parts to close tolerance
- Maintain, repair and calibrate precision measuring instruments
- Verify dimensions of parts machined using precise measuring instruments (e.g., micrometers, calipers)
- Compute dimensions and tolerances and measure and lay out work pieces
- Set up, operate and maintain a variety of conventional and computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine tools
**Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:

- Machinist Trade Certification
**Measuring tools**:

- Micrometers
- Callipers
**Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Milling machines
**Transportation/travel information**:

- Own transportation
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Attention to detail
**Own tools/equipment**:

- Steel-toed safety boots
**Personal suitability**:

- Accurate
- Dependability
- Excellent written communication
- Team player
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week